"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on decisions
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"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side."

Lowell, James Russell on decisions
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"Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong."

Mansfield, Lord on decisions
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"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire."

Pickens, T. Boone on decisions   

"Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision."

Robbins, Anthony on decisions
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"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

Robbins, Anthony on decisions
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"The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along."

Dewar, Thomas Robert on wives   

"Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion."

Zangwill, Israel on selfishness   

"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it."

Zangwill, Israel on cleverness
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"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."

Zedong, Mao on knowledge   

"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on evolution   

"A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on evolution   

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on evolution
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"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history."

Camus, Albert on evolution
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."

Bambara, Toni Cade on evolution   

"Dream big and dare to fail."

Vaughan, Norman D. on dream
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"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on change
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"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it."

Inge, Dean William R. on evolution   

"Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation."

James, Selma on evolution   

"If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it."

Thomas, Norman on evolution   

"It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on evolution   

"Revolutions are always verbose."

Trotsky, Leon on evolution   

"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."

Tuchman, Barbara on evolution   

"If not us, who? If not now, when?"

Unknown, Source on evolution   

"Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice."

Voltaire on evolution   

"You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."

Williams, Tennessee on evolution   

"No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand."

Sand, George on evolution   

"A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor."

Smith, Sydney on evolution   

"Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on evolution   

"In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off."

Marx, Karl on evolution   

"Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought."

Nkrumah, Kwame on evolution   

"Revolutions are not made, they come."

Phillips, Wendell on evolution   

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"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

Plato on evolution
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"The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance."

Rich, Adrienne on evolution   

"It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do."

Beauvoir, Simone De on parents and parenting   

"To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."

French, Marilyn on parents and parenting
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"Let your children go if you want to keep them."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on parents and parenting
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"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."

Dryden, John on parents and parenting
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"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."

Crisp, Quentin on parents and parenting
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"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."

Clark, Frank A. on parents and parenting
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